I'm not going to hold my breath. It's doing a deal with a Telecoms provider that's probably the biggest sticking point - the pricing structure for data traffic in the UK is very different to that in the US.

Not only would they need a telco deal, they'd need a different chipset for the mobile network. There's no EVDO in the UK. I think it's likely they might provide one with WiFi support instead of (or in addition to) EVDO.